U+0DC3 "ස" Sinhala Letter Dantaja Sayanna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ස
U+0DC3 "ස" Sinhala Letter Dantaja Sayanna is a fundamental consonant in the Sinhala script, representing the dental sibilant sound /s/. It is categorized as a Dantaja (dental) letter, meaning it is articulated with the tongue against the teeth, and it belongs to the Sayanna subgroup of Sinhala consonants. This character is widely used in the Sinhala language, the official language of Sri Lanka, and appears in common words such as "සාමය" (sāmaya, meaning peace) and "සිතුවිලි" (situvili, meaning thoughts). In Unicode, it is encoded in the Sinhala block (U+0D80–U+0DFF) and is essential for digital text representation, enabling accurate rendering and typing of Sinhala content across computers and mobile devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0DC3 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Sinhala Letter Dantaja Sayanna |
| Block | Sinhala |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ස |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ස |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB7 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0DC3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000DC3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0dc3 |